fixed talk of unusual members,Tim Farron’s centrism and fervent belief in Lib Dem decency might pull the party throughEven before the rapturous applause that greeted Tim Farron’s big speech in Bournemouth on Wednesday, the big puzzle at the Liberal Democrats conference this week has been why the record turnout of delegates are looking so cheerful. What do they know approximately their post-election plight that the rest of us don’t? set another way, and what are they on?The answer,of course, is rooted in the eternal Lib Dem answer: fervent self-belief in their own decency and indispensability to the health of the ailing British body politic. The Daily Mail prefers to call it smugness.
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Source: theguardian.com